Rocket Men: Saturn V, which carried the Apollo 11 Moon mission, climbs toward orbit after lift-off in a photograph taken from a plane monitoring the launch.

执行阿波罗11号登月任务的土星5号正在飞向自己运行的轨道，此照片由负责监测发射的飞机拍摄。

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The U.S.Moon mission came on July 16,1969, when Armstrong, along with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, climbed into Apollo 11's command module called Columbia atop a gigantic Saturn V rocket and blasted off.

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The SLS will provide the U.S. with a capability for science and human exploration that we have not had since the Saturn V of the Apollo era.

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At 180 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter, the Falcon 9 rocket is tiny in comparison to the football-field-long Saturn V rockets that carried Apollo spacecraft into orbit.

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The factory is built on the site of the the Redstone Arsenal, which produced the earliest U.S. rockets, including the Saturn V, which took Apollo astronauts to the Moon.

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